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DOBELL COLLECTION 



TRAVELLING THOUGHTS, 



BY WILLIAM DANBY, ESQ 



OF SWINTON PARK, YORKSHIRE. 



Iter vitae in varia itinera, 
Hue et illuc directa, partitum est. 
Flores passim, qui vult, carpat ; 
Bene erit, si fructus gignunt salubres. 



EXETER -. 

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, 

BY E. WOOLMER AND CO. GAZETTE-OFFICE. 



1831. 






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PREFACE. 



I wish to begin this little work with an 
earnest address to my readers, endeavouring to 
persuade them to enjoy one of the great amuse- 
ments of life, viz., change of scene, which they 
cannot do if they hurry over a country, be it 
what it will, with a speed that justifies the 
French observation, that " an Englishman tra- 
vels as if he was running away from himself." 
We should remember Horace's maxim, " Cce- 
lumnon animum mutat," &c. ; and we should 
therefore carry with us a x< mind " that is capa- 
ble of making every thing a source of rational 
enjoyment, which it will, *' si quod petit, in 
se est :" and no one, in running from one place 
to another, " se quoque fugit." An air-blown 
bladder may roll, but will carry nothing but its 
wind along with it, and still will be the 
bladder it was, roll and " rattle" as it may, 
with all the " beans" that can be put into it. 



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Life, however, is not all composed of such 
bladders, and as it is itself a journey, we must 
make each lesser journey in it a source of as 
much rational pleasure as circumstances will 
admit of, that we may enjoy life itself, and, 
what is far more important, the happiness of 
another life, which our passage through this 
ought to prepare us for. While here we remain, 
then, let us " possess our souls" in the manner 
and by the means which St. Paul recommends ; 
let us possess them in the " patience" * which 
alone can enable us to do it, and which will 
" sweeten any bitter" that may be " thrown into 
the cup of life ," and will, by its " predominancy," 
give it " the taste of heaven ;" and let us so 
€< rejoice" in our anticipation of it here. This 
is true philosophy, nay more, it is true religion, 
which gives to a well-disposed mind a joy that 
nothing else can give, and that nothing can 
take away : it is in the mind itself, and it 
emanates from Him who 

, i s ever present, ever felt, 



In the void waste, as in the city full : 

And where He vital breathes, there must be joy. 

* And vigilance. 



DEDICATION. 



I cannot better dedicate these few sheets than 
to one who has been, for above nine years past, 
the beloved and affectionate companion of my 
journey in life, as she has now been of my 
journey to a place, from whence, after passing 
some little time in the society of her friends 
and relatives there and in its neighbourhood, 
we hope to return to our delightful abode in 
Yorkshire; making a visit, in our way, to a very 
near and dear relative at St. Leonard's Hill, to 
whom I dedicated a former work, and who is 
now a lonely widow, surrounded indeed by 
friends, who but imperfectly make up the loss 
of a beloved and now lamented husband* 
When, if it so pleases God, we are arrived at 
our home, we shall hope that some of my read- 
ers will add to our enjoyments there that of 
their society, associating with it our mutual 



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congratulations on the benefits which we may 
trust are reserved for our highly favoured 
country, when the principles of its excellent 
constitution, acknowledged as they are by the 
highest ranks among us, shall have been practi- 
cally, and with a correspondent theory, esta- 
blished on the broad and solid basis of a 
pure and well-chosen Representation, in which 
the conscience only of each Representative will 
be bound, and his judgment left free; as an 
example for other countries to follow. I cannot 
better complete the sum of all these reasons for 
my thankfulness, than by this effusion of it, ad- 
ding this further testimony of my regard for her, 
whose happiness is united with mine, and who 
will allow me to subscribe myself, 

Her most affectionate Husband, 

WILLIAM DANBY* 

Plymtree Rectory, May 20th, 1831. 



To my wish that this country may set an ex- 
ample to others, of which I have presumed on 
the consequences, I may add, quod post refor- 
mationem factam, venturum sperare poteri- 
mus ; et quoniam nos 

" toto divisos orbe Britannos" 

politicus ille facere nequit, nee optare debet, 
manet nos et " decus et tutamen" totius 
Europa3, immo mundi esse, admirationem non 
sine invidia ad nos attrahentes, et pacem gladio 
servantes, non bellum minitantes, suscitantesve : 
exemplum ad imitandum, non in terrorem, 
cseteris populis praebentes. Sic in beneficium 
humanum, non in perniciem,potestatem nostram 
vertemus ; sic " intacti Britanni" manebimus, 
et " portum fortiter occupan^us," servabi- 
musque, aliis populis portum, in quo tuti omnes 
stabunt, oeque praebentes: sic nos generis 
humani benedicta, non maledicta sequentur : 
sic historia nostra scriptorum futurorum laudi- 
bus emeritis tollenda erit ; et sic Deus omni- 
potens, aeternus,beneficia,laudesque illas longafe 
prosperitate coronabit. Hsec omnia ut fiantj. 
fervidis precibus obtineamus. 



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[The following is a translation of the pre- 
ceding Latin :}— 

That after a reformation has been made, we 
may hope for the attainment of them ; and since 
no politician can make us " Britons be separated 
from the rest of the world," nor ought to wish 
it, it remains that we shall be the ornaments 
and protectors, not only of all Europe, but also 
of the whole world, attracting the admiration 
of it to us, though not without envy ; keeping 
peace with the sword, not menacing nor stir- 
ring up war ; affording to other people an 
example to follow, not to avoid. So shall we 
use our power for the benefit, not the injury of 
mankind : so shall we remain "unhurt Britons," 
and we shall both " seize" and firmly retain 
possession of gi the harbour," affording an equal 
harbour for all to remain safe in ; so will the 
blessings, not the curses of mankind, follow us ; 
so will our history be deservedly exalted by the 
praises of future writers ; and so will the omni- 
potent and eternal God crown these praises 
with a long prosperity. That all this may 
happen to us, let us obtain by our earnest 
prayers. 

There may be some eloquence, and not bad 
Latinity, in the above tirade and rhetorical 
flourish, but after all, it is mere amplification 



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and wire-drawing ; and though it may have the 
solidity as well as the ductility of gold wire, it 
should neither be drawn out to too great a 
tenuity, nor spread out into leaves that will be 
too thin to hide the worthless surface they may 
happen to cover. Swift has shewn this, in his 
" Meditations on a Broomstick/' different as 
they are from Dry den's masterly prefaces, which, 

" Though merely writ at first, by filling, 
To raise the volume's price a shilling/' 

well deserve the assertion that 

u Them the critics much confide in." 

If I am to follow " those two worthies," it must 
be * proximus his, longo sed proximus inter- 
vallo." My reader, however, will not say of 
me, carpit anhelus iter. But not to put him and 
myself too much out of breath, I will change 
my pace in saying, that eloquence shews itself 
in strewing flowers on the simple and unbroken 
ground of truth, or the crooked paths of false- 
hood, as Milton has made Belial do. I may 
have done the former with similar, though not 
equal pretensions, to those that Dry den had. 
For further amplification, and without halting, 
I will say, that we are still taken with the 
gilding that pleased us in our childhood ; and 
as our " reading'' was " made easy" to us by it 
h 



it then, so it is now made pleasant to us grown 
children, ad aures nostras titillandas, by in- 
structing and enlightening us in the sterling 
and unalloyed language of truth, or dazzling 
and perverting us by the tinsel glare of false- 
hood. I feel that I have chosen the former, as 
the proper way to the improvement which the 
times require ; and have I not a " multitude 
of counsellors" on my side ? Prejudices, fears, 
and interests, indeed, there are on the other ; 
but on which are we to look for reason ? Di- 
cant, qui dicere possunt. 

That my reader might not think that my 
Dedication, addressed as it is to a lady, was 
too verbose with the addition that has just fol- 
lowed it, I have separated the latter from the 
former, perhaps as a proof that a multiplicity 
of words may supply the place of meaning, or 
may serve to bury the little of it there is under 
them ; but there is a pretty evident meaning in 
making them a ridicule of what they imitate ; 
this is the w Ridiculum acri," &c. My reader, 
however, whether his political opinions agree 
with mine or not, will, I hope, allow, that my 
declaration of them is not without meaning, 
serious as it certainly is, and perhaps reason- 
able, as I hope the event will prove, to the 
extent which I have ventured to predict. I 
think the paucity of danger in this case will 



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justify some ridicule of the apprehension of it, 
and I wish that I could succeed in laughing 
others out of their fears (I speak only of fears, 
for other influences may be too adherent,) as I 
am presumptuous enough to think I have a 
right to attempt it. If my reader should require 
the detail of my reasons for treating the subject 
in this manner, I think I need only to refer him 
to much better heads than mine, and I believe 
I may say to the majority of the people of this 
country, declared as their opinion is, or soon 
will be, on a subject in which they are so greatly 
interested, and have, as well as the Constitution 
itself, been so much injured. To that we may 
chiefly ascribe the alarm they give u&. 

I wish only to detain my reader with a com- 
parison between my, and, I may presume, his 
favourite poets, Virgil and Horace, of whom 
the former, as I trust he will agree with me, is 
much the most agreeable and suitable vade 
nobiscum for our journey : for his 

" Parturit almus ager, zephyrique tepentibus auris 
Laxant arva sinus," &c. 

and much more his addresses to the 
" Gaudentes rure Camsenae ;" 

his description of the delights of a country life, 
which the " Fortunati nimium, sua si bona 



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norint" enjoy ; his sublime ones of the storms, 
&c. ; his mention of the omnipresence of Him 
to whose boundless agency he ascribes the 

" Ire per omnes 
Terrasque, tractusque maris, coelumque profundum," 

though he refuses to acknowlodge His agency 
in giving to the 

" Lsetse pecudes, et ovantes gutture corvi/* 

the 

f ' Divinitus illis 
Ingenium, et rerum fato prudentia major ;*' 

yet all these indicate something more and higher 
than the ',' molle atque facetum" that Horace 
limits his encomium on his friend Virgil to; 
much as he esteemed him " animae diraidium 
suae." Indeed the " divinse particula aurae" in 
Horace had not the elevation of Virgil's : it was 
a strange and discordant mixture of sentiment 
and sensuality ; though it gave him a right to say 

u Sublimi feriam sidera vertice ; 

and 

" Lauro cinge volens, Melpomene, comam ;'* 

to say to his " rustica Phidyle," 

? Ceelo supinas si tuleris manus^* 



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and to say of himself, 

" Parcus Deorum cultor et infrequens, 
Insanientis dura sapiential 
Consultus erro ; nunc retrorsum 
Vela dare, atqwe iterare cursus 
Cogor relict os" 

to pour out his moral and religious exhortations 
and effusions to his serious or lively friends, 
mixing them indeed with his Bacchanalian 
orgies, his 



" Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero ;" 



his 



" Lsetus in prsesens animus quod ultra e 
Oderit curare," &c. 

his amatory and sensual effusions, that sunk 
him even below the " Epicuri de grege porcum ," 
these made him very inferior in purity and deli- 
cacy to Virgil,— an inferiority indeed that he, 
perhaps, would have had the frankness to ac- 
knowledge, and in some measure to atone for 
by that frankness. Both, however, Deists as 
they were at the best, wanted the elevation 
that inspired the Evangelists, and which that 
inspiration alone, breathed as it was into them 
by their Divine Master and the revelations of 
his Gospel, could give them. The strains of 
Virgil and Horace, and even the more licentious 



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ones of Ovid, Catullus, &c. were a kind of pre- 
paration for the softening and vivifying effects 
of Christianity, in realizing the 

" Ingenuas didicisse fideliter artes 
Emollit mores, nee sinit esse feros ;" 

as were the purer and more moral lessons of 
Cicero and Seneca, unequal indeed to those 
which had the higher aids of Christianity to 
enable their writers to give. The inspirations 
of all Apollo's Muses fell far short of what ani- 
mated the addresses and aspirations of the 
Evangelists, and even of the half Christian 
David, mixt as are the feelings of his Psalms 
with the invocations of curses on his enemies, 
while the Ev angelists, on the contrary, or rather 
their Divine Master, enjoin us to love ours. 
But to return to our heathen poets, of whom we 
will begin with Horace in addressing these 



TRAVELLING THOUGHTS. 



i. 

" Ecce iterum Crispinus," reader, who may 
say to you, " vive," but not yet " vale," for 
he hopes that you will be his Compagnon de 
voyage, and that he shall keep you from sleep- 
ing. And so we will begin our journey from 
Brighton, on this 27th of April, 1831, dies 
albo lapide notanda, for it is a very fine one, 
enlivening the bleak and dreary hills of Sussex, 
which, however, make us feel that nothing 
gives a more general interest, and makes it su- 
persede all other causes of it, than its being in 
the natale solum or the domus familiaris ; 
inhabited and cultivated as these hills are, as 
well as the uninviting tracts of Bedfordshire, 
Cambridgeshire, &c, which acquire a new 
beauty by the attention and improvement be- 
stowed upon them ; whatever it is, such a 
44 Home is indeed a home,, though never so 
homely." But the expanse of sea and land 
views hardly admits of an equal expansion of 
attachment. In the former there is no verdure, 
no change but between motion and rest, no 

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beauty or variety of form, no sound but the 
roar of waves, no spread of scenery but one 
uniform expanse, which indeed impresses on 
the mind the greatness of its Creator, who 
gave their varied forms to all His works, and 
saw that " all was good." But to return to 
our first object. The next to domestic, local, 
natal, and habitual attachments, are the social, 
all which may be comprised iu the name of 
patriotic. These social principles, with the 
convenience of situation, induce men to fix their 
habitations by the road side, for the sight and 
hearing of their fellow creatures who pass by, 
and even for the inhalement of the dust which is 
" kicked up" by them or the animals which they 
use in their conveyances. If they pay a little 
mere attention to natural beauty, or perhaps to 
their own vanity, they place the houses a few 
yards backwards from the road, to have gardens 
before them, and perhaps an approach to the 
house. These expedients supply the place of the 
more solitary enjoyments, which a greater dis- 
tance from the paths of men would confine them 
to, and of which they dread the fancied melan- 
choly, striving also to avoid it by the less rational 
or innocent resources of drinking, vociferating, 
sometimes oaths and execrations, unmeaning 
though inspiriting as they are. For this too 
they often leave their homes (another reason 
perhaps for choosing the situation of them), to 



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run away from themselves, as the more rea- 
sonable, though more talkative Frenchmen 
reproach us thinking Englishmen with doing. 
"What disgrace do we bring on ourselves when 
thus we neglect all the best uses that our 
reason was given us for, and change them for 
others in which reason is not used, but abused ! 
For no conversation can be rational, without a 
preparation for it, by the recollections or sug- 
gestions of solitude. 

II. 

Iter faciens ad Worthing. What an effect a 
little change for the better in a scene has upon 
us! what then may we expect when amelioration 
has arrived at its utmost height? But when 
can we enjoy our existence more on earth, than 
when we feel in Whom " we live and move and 
have our being ?" When sunshine illumes the 
spring which He gives us again ? But this is 
not felt by those who sacrifice their mental 
to their momentary sensual enjoyments ; the 
* corpus onustum" has no terrors for them. Is 
it because they have no " divina? particula 
aurae," to be " affixa humo ?" 

III. 

Our friends sometimes think that we are too 
apparently well, and in too great spirits to be 
really well ; shall wc believe them or our own 



feelings ? But excitement is dangerous ; well, but 
from whence does it proceed ? Must the body 
be in a fever, because the mind is in a state of 
animation? I could almost say, welcome then 
such a fever ; but 

Mi sento bene ; dunque sto bene : 

Mount then, divinae particula aurae ! Mount, 
and enjoy the delightful Spring, looking up to 
Him from whom it comes, by whom it is 
maintained. 

IV. 

The stomach of a man in health is like the 
sea, which receives all that is thrown into it, 
revolves, digests it, and wants no other cloaca 
but itself- The stomach ought not to receive, but 
only to discharge impurities, O gentle reader, 
excuse these hasty deglutitions and excretions : 
I am at breakfast, allow of quickly swallowed 
and half digested thoughts ; my exterior I pro- 
mise you shall be clean, and will not the inte- 
rior clean itself? The rapidity of my pen shall 
not affect my stomach. Worthing, April 28. 



No colours can be beautiful when they have 
no light to reflect, and no light can give them 
beauty equal to that of the sun. Witness the 
gloomy sky of to-day. 



VI. 

A man may have cupidity with which Cupid 
has nothing to do, (excuse this pun, gentle 
reader,) nor his mother Venus neither ; Plutus 
may possess him with all his treasures ; Mars, 
that powerful god, may rouse him into action ; 
Vulcan may encase him with " robur et aes 
triplex j" Bacchus and Silenus may give him all 
the madness of ebriety; Pan and his Satyrs, 
and Comus with them, may brutalise him with 
sensuality ; Mercury may teach him the light- 
ness of a foot-racer, and the dexterity of a 
thief; and finally Apollo, " magnus Apollo,'' 
may surround him at or after dinner with all 
the Graces and all the Muses ; and after all, 
Satan may add his own to the mixture of all 
the bad qualities of the Heathen Mythology : so 
alloyed, so vicious are human systems. 

VII. 

April 28th. We saw Arundel Castle, a very 
fine old building, and felt that there is as much 
interest in the concentrated but not unconnected 
dignity of a private nobleman's family, if not 
more than in the more elevated and expanded 
magnificence of a royal one. The magnificence 
of the latter is almost lost in its expansion, 
which generalises and removes it from our 
sight almost as much as that of the " King of 
Kings, and Lord of Lords." It is of little im- 



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portance what was the origin of the Ruler of a 
Country, of which Buonaparte was an instance. 
Personal dignity makes the " King's name a 
tower of strength." 

VIII. 

A poetical imagination will imperceptibly 
give a poetical turn and expression to all its 
productions : 

" Et quod tentabit scribere, versus erit" 

Such imaginative creatures we are, excited as 
are our imaginations. 

IX. 

The mind of man, though not creative, which 
supreme power alone can be, is highly genera- 
tive,nodoubttoenableitto contemplate the won- 
derful works of the Creator, and His consequent 
Attributes ;* and as man is the image of Him, 
he of course has the faculties given him that 
dispose and enable him to admire and adore his 
great Original and Creator. If he loses him- 
self in the vastness and multiplicity of his con- 
ceptions, it is to keep him in awe and in hope ; if 
he has the power given him to neglect or misuse 
his faculties, it is to exercise his responsibility ; 
if his use or misuse of them is rewarded or 

* And to multiply the ideas they excite. 



punished, it is to fulfil the ends of justice ; if the 
rewards are greater and the punishment less 
than either deserve, it is to fill the room left for 
benevolence and for mercy. O man, how much 
art thou the object of thy Almighty Father's 
regard ! What should be thy fear when thou 
contemplatest His power and His justice : and 
what thy gratitude, when that fear may be lost 
in love ! Thy best qualities assimilate thee to 
thy Divine Maker, and in loving them, thou 
lovest Him also. What motives then can there 
be wanting to excite those feelings ? 

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" A burnt child dreads the fire :" unburnt we 
fear not its vicinity ; we are not prepared for 
inexperienced misfortunes, such as we, or 
rather our servants have just experienced. " De 
Southampton, famulis furtim spoliatis, exituri. 
April 29th. I fear that in this town, as in 
Rome, according to Tacitus, '* Cuncta undique 
atrocia aut pudenda confluunt, celebrantur- 
que." At least if we may judge from what we 
have experienced ; and Southampton may be — 
"the needy villain's general home" as well as 
London, from whence our plunderers may have 
come, as London is the head quarters of them 
and their fraternity. " Hsec opprobria tarn 
vero ut metuam, de Christianis (ut seipsos ap- 
pellant) modernis quam falso de primitivis dici 



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possunt, Tacito dicente." Tacitus was aware 
of the vices of the Romans, when he sought to 
exculpate them, by imputing those vices to the 
Christians, who were prepared to meet the 
charge, and all the torments that followed it. by 
the sanctity of their religion, and by the sup- 
port that was given them from above. They 
willingly shed their "blood, as a seed of the 
Church." 

XI. 

We have passed the marshy flats of the neigh- 
bourhood of Portsmouth, the more extensive 
than beautiful (except near Southampton water) 
New Forest, and are come to the Dorsetshire 
hills. Yes, the objects they present to us, in 
all their native bleakness and bareness, are 
interesting, highly interesting, by their anti- 
quity, as the Barrows, Camps, &c. But what 
is that antiquity or that interest, in comparison 
with the far higher, infinite, and eternal interest , 

Writ in the skies, repeated in the Bible ? 

Strong is the proof, when one thing proves 
another, but stronger still, when one thing 
proves itself ; and of that proof the Bible is an 
instance. 

XII. 

Minor beauties do not attract the attention 
of the vulgar ; they are not the " vulgi solatia ;" 



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nor even the greater beauties of nature, for 
while they admire greatness, they also admire 
the littleness and formal regularity of art, and 
they cannot soar beyond the narrow limits of 
man's works, to the elevation and expansion of 
those of nature. But again, the sea presents 
itself, and we look down on it, and the pleas- 
ingly situated town of Lyme and its beautiful 
neighbourhood, Charmouth, &c. At Lyme we 
have visited the extraordinary collection of 
fossils, made by that no less extraordinary young 
woman, Miss Anning, who by her self-taught 
knowledge has attracted the attention of the 
Geological World. She indeed seems to have 
been providentially preserved* for our instruc- 
tion in the hitherto recondite parts of nature, 
and to teach us that to be kept in awe, we must 
be kept in uncertainty. We have a revelation 
given to us, that we cannot fully comprehend, 
and that sometimes raises our doubts by stag- 
gering and confounding our reason : but we 
should recollect that all is possible with God : 
that infinite benevolence may display itself in 
infinite creations, successive and varied as they 
may be, and conducive to the successive hap- 
piness of His creatures ,• that time may have al- 
ways existed, but divided into portions of eter- 

* Two or three of her family were struck dead by light- 
ning, when *he, then a child, waa with them. 
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ulty, (and time only can have a "beginning") 
in which the power and goodness of God has 
been continually displayed. Power, we may 
suppose, will be always in action, otherwise 
how could the attributes of perfection be mani- 
fested ? There may be mansions of the living 
and the dead, or rather of beings transferred 
from one part of the universe to another ; and 
both may be infinite : there may be places where 
time is, and where it is not ; our earth is one of 
the former, as probably are all the revolving 
celestial bodies. There may be gradations of 
which we know nothing, and possibilities whose 
bounds we cannot guess at. The infinity of 
One, in short, must comprehend that of all. 

" Deum namque ire per omnes 
Terrasque, tractusque maris, cselumqueprofundum." 

And infinity is required for an infinite B.eing 
to exist and to act in. God, therefore, is in 
all, and all is in Him ; but that all is not, as 
Spinosa foolishly imagined, God itself. But 
Spinosa fancied that nothing could exist, but 
what he saw ; or at least that there could be no 
other existence but what was similar to that of 
man. This was indeed approaching near to the 
Heathen Mythology in its worst shape, if not 
to the Egyptian worship of leeks, &c. As to 
ourselves, we may endeavour as much as we 



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can to exert our abilities usefully, as this poor 
girl does ; but we cannot foresee our possession 
of those abilities, still less the increase of them ; 
surely this is a proof that they are given us 
from above. In our religion we have a free 
choice given us, between that and any other 
system that we know or can imagine^ and there 
is enough in ours to determine that choice in 
a reasonable mind : our faith then will be founded 
in reason, 

I do not see how a determination to resolve 
all miracles into the effect of natural causes, 
can be at all consistent with the admission of 
the power of the Deity, as the first Cause and 
Creator. It is an approach to Atheism ; for to 
deny Him any of His attributes, is nearly a 
denial of his existence. If his power is acknow- 
ledged in the first instance, the power of destroy- 
ing, changing, suspending, or making a second 
creation, or as many as He pleases, must be 
equally attributed to Him. The discovery of 
successive creations in the geological researches 
may therefore be considered as proof of His 
having those powers, in an infinite and inex- 
haustible degree, marking, as those creations 
appear to do, the successive portions of time 
which has each its " beginning," and which will 
perhaps continue to succeed one another, till 
all shall end in eternity. 



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XIII. 

Exeter, April 30.—" Longee finis chartaeque 
viseque." "We arrived here at the end of a 
nearly uncontested election for this city, and 
near the eve of one, expected to be equally so, 
for the county. The general inclination is 
evidently in favor of a Parliamentary Reform, 
but differing as to the mode and degree of it. 
It is to be hoped that the final determination 
will be moderate and reasonable ; for a nation 
that speaks such a language as the English, 
plain, though sometimes harsh and violent as it 
is, cannot -well be an unreasonable people, 
though sometimes led astray by demagogues r 
They have borrowed the reason of other nations, 
and it would have been well if they had not 
borrowed their vices too. But how mixed are 
the lots of humanity ! In this perplexity, we 
may sometimes be glad to hear dangers exag- 
gerated, as it shews the prejudices and unrea- 
sonable fears of the person who does it ; and 
indeed the general attachment to habit, which 
is expressed in the saying " Let well alone,'* 
and the dislike of venturing on untrodden paths, 
however we may be guided by principle, when 
any thing is put to apparent hazard, consider- 
ably lessens the force of the arguments brought 
by those who are influenced by them, which a 
reasoning mind will not always be. But an 



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unbiassed opinion is scarcely to be met with : 
indolence is one preventive of it : the " medio 
tutissimus ibis" may be true, but where shall 
we find that medium ? Indolence will not try. 

In this hour, however, of awful suspense, and 
of an almost equal division between hopes and 
fears, I will not put to further hazard the agree- 
ment which I hope subsists between my reader 
and myself on moral and religious subjects, by 
mixing them with political ; but will content 
myself with wishing that all who love their 
country may alike experience a happy result 
of a question so important both to its domestic 
and foreign interests ; for which we must say, 

Si Deo videbitur. 

XIV. 

In this, and the journey of life, I have found 
that there can be no thorough enjoyment with- 
out self-possession. How far the common 
mode of employing the mind (where mind 
there is), or the crossings and jostlings 
that it so frequently meets with, admit of it, I 
will not pretend to say ; but the race must be 
run, and we must hope there will be many 
winners. 



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XV. 

In making the journey of life, we have no 
occasion to 

" Beat the ample field ; 
Try what the open, what the coverts yield," 

as Pope and Lord Bolingbroke did, in search 
of game, which we shall be as likely to find, on 
recollection, in our own closets, after our oc- 
casional visits to the haunts of men. A little 
practice and discipline will make us as saga- 
cious pointers or spaniels as if we had the game 
constantly in our scent, or directly before our 
noses, and we can recall them to our memories 
full as perfectly as the pointer or spaniel 
does when he is sleeping and dreaming in his 
kennel, or before the kitchen fire, and we can 
store them in our writings, as I have endea- 
voured to do in mine, as well, either entire, or 
carved into separate parts, and with un- 
man gled limbs, as the cook does the game 
in her larder, in their natural state, or so 
dressed as the most fastidious epicure in 
reading can desire ; seasoned too with Attic 
salt, if we have a sufficient store of that in our 
mental caskets, and probably with more of that 
than sugar, which I am afraid would not so 
well please the critical reader's palate. Spices 
however we may be sure he would like, to com- 



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plete a dish that would satisfy the most ardent 
voracity of any critic in London, Paris, or 
Edinburgh. Such a feast would have no game 
laws to spoil the relish of it, no manorial rights, 
no exclusive privileges rigidly maintained, per- 
haps for the senseless enjoyment of "battues/ 
which by their violation may now involve the 
proprietor in the guilt of stimulating the poach- 
er, tempted as he already is, in his progress 
from crime to crime ; for such game, unlike the 
unjust appropriation of what all, at least 
those who can afford to purchase it, have a right 
to share in, would be the general property of all 
who were mentally qualified to enjoy it, which 
I am afraid is not generally the case with our 
Lords of Manors. To those who are not so 
qualified, the pride of exclusive possession is 
necessary to make them satisfied with a coun- 
try residence, where perhaps their utility is but 
little acknowledged ; but let their feelings be 
what they may, the game laws require a re- 
vision and modification, a disengagement from 
feudal systems, to substantiate a claim to pro- 
perty which is continually changing its owner 
(ferae naturae as it is) and owning no real 
Lord, however it may be connected with other 
property, which is always stationary. The 
owner of that may, and will, occasionally 
change, both by the course of nature, and by 
adventitious circumstances, but the owner of 



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game must be continually changing by the 
nature of the property itself. Thus Game Laws 
in general must be more or less ineffectual, and 
the objects of mental enjoyment will require no 
laws but of the critic's own making. The latter 
are subject only to the discord of opinion, the 
former to the more serious discord of proud 
pretensions, and sensual enjoyments. After 
this rather prolix discussion, I think I may 
leave to my other readers an agreeable bait 
from our cookery, in their journey of life ; and 
in their repose, not sleep after it, they may 
take the food into their mental stomachs, and 
ruminate upon it, as well as any of their four- 
footed fellow creatures, either with or without 
horns. If they rise satisfied, they will not have 
travelled with me to no purpose ; their mental 
constitutions will have been both refreshed and 
invigorated. 

XVI. 

My thoughts, fugitive as they are in this and 
my other effusions of them, may be compared 
to the butterfly, which settles for a moment on 
a flower without always extracting sweets from 
it, for it chuses them of all scents and colours. 
I must not invest mine with the utility there is 
in Horace's 

" Apis matinse 
More modoque," 



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nor indeed have they been " operosa carmina." 
They do not display the resplendent beauties 
of some of the lepidopterous insects, but I hope 
they may now and then instil a drop of honey 
into my reader's breast, and may perhaps en- 
liven it with the sunshine that animates these 
beautiful children of nature in their floral pur- 
suits. My winged rovers indeed have both 
been generated and sent forth by the warmth of 
it in my own mind, and may excite it in my 
readers', in which they will have the effect of 
the " southern breeze," so delightfully breathed 
in Dr. Boyce's music, and like that will " fan" 

My " field, where flowers and weeds promiscuous grow/* 
That from it, " sweets from every part may flow." 

Will this be a Garden of Eden, reader? It will 
not be " tempting with forbidden fruit," nor will 
it have the enervating effect of Calypso's 
enchanted island ; if it had it might change me 
into one of her swine ; or at least into one of 
the Ci Epicuri de grege porci." 

XVII. 

The kindly feelings are most awakened by 
the participation in one common enjoyment ; 
and in none more than that of the beauties of 
nature, for there can be no rivalry in what there 
is an ample store of for all who can enjoy it, 
and what puts no one on a higher level than his 

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fellows, whose only superiority is in the en- 
joyment which is most favourable to the feeling 
of brotherly love, which all must be sensible of, 
who consider themselves as the sons of One ge- 
neral and universal Father. He has given 
them the feelings which best prepare them for 
still higher enjoyments, in 

" The bosom of their Father and their God." 

Here, meanwhile, all have a common home, 
though not " an abiding place," which can only 
be in that long and last home, in which the 
happiness or misery of each is determined by 
his conduct in this. Our temporary abodes in 
the journey of life may each be considered as 
an inn, or as the Derveish termed it, a 
ci caravansera ;" and our occasional sojourns 
at each of them are like the " baits," which I 
have endeavoured, in these little travelling 
effusions, to provide for my readers. 

Let us look at the boundless expanse for 
thought over our heads, — at the numerous and 
beautiful objects that cover the surface of the 
earth around us, and then let us say whether 
there can be any more rational objects of en- 
joyment than these present. 

XVIII. 
Some French author has observed, that bad 



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writers are in mercy allowed to feel a satisfac* 
tion which their works do not deserve to give 
them, as a compensation for the neglect or even 
contempt with which they are treated by others. 
Perhaps my readers will allow me to feel this, 
and even to fancy that I may do myself justice 
in appealing to my own judgment, from the 
want of it in less impartial judges, partial as I 
may be to myself. But my last appeal must be 
to the public, to whose candour, protracted as 
the appeal has been, I trust it will not have 
been made in vain. If they say of this work, 
as well as of my others, that Horace's rule has 
been observed in them, 

'* Servetur ad imum 
Qualis ab incepto processerit, et sibi constet," 

it will be as great a trial as my vanity can be 
put to, in considering that as an encomium. 

XIX. 

In expressing our own feelings, we address 
ourselves of course to those of our readers, 
which I doubt not I may safely do with mine. 

XX. 

I know not whether in these and my other 
" Travelling Thoughts," I may not have thrown 
a little darkness over the natural or political 



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sunshine which they are meant to describe or 
express ; but writing may be obscure, or even 
far-fetched, if it is worth the ruminating upon, 
or taking a journey for. If it requires time for 
composition, it also allows the means of under- 
standing it to those who can and will think, 
which a viv& voce address does not : in the 
latter, we may be hurried away by a torrent of 
words and eloquence ; in the former, we have 
had time to cool before an opinion, which 
requires no immediate delivery, is formed ; nor 
need we have recourse either to the " ballot," 
or to the shelter of " universal suffrage," to 
evade the bold and open delivery of it. If, 
however, we are not required to engage our- 
selves immediately, we must consider, that 
" vox audita perit, litera scripta manet :" this 
puts our responsibility and our power to fulfil 
it on a par ; this makes us act like men and 
Englishmen, and we may avoid pledging our- 
selves to give consent or not; les individus, 
comme les Rois, peuvent " s'en aviser." 

I have to add, that I fear I must acknowledge 
the parts of this little work to have been rather 
mal cousues, though I hope my reader will not 
find it altogether a piece of patchwork : this 
bad workmanship is owing to my aiter-thoughts, 
which therefore I would advise other authors 
to make their fore ones, for the prevention of 



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similar expedients, the adoption of which is 
hardly excusable, even in such a mass of de- 
tached and frequently unconnected thoughts as 
mine. 

" Gaudia, discursus, nostri farrago libelli." 



APPENDIX 



(Note to u Progress from crime to crime" p. 15, /. 10. 

It is difficult, if not impossible, for us to attach 
the due degree of guilt to the commission of 
any crime, because we cannot trace that crime 
to its original source, nor say how far tempta- 
tion will have excused it, which it may, if the 
submission to it was not voluntary. Our power 
over ourselves is limited, and others may have 
at least an equal share in the crimes we commit, 
either by their participation in them, or by 
having excited them by the gratification of their 
own unreasonable and selfish enjoyments. 

II. 

A practice which has been supported, for 
what time soever, by habit, must necessarily 
be liable to abuses, from the various passions 
and interests of mankind. As, therefore, these 
will make it and all other human affairs " in 
pejus ruere, et retro sublapsa referri," it must 



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have had some prop, some stay, to preserve it 
from total ruin. For this, I can see no other 
than principles, and those the first or funda- 
mental principles : a recurrence to these, 
then, I think can be attended with no danger, 
as they have been the means of its preservation, 
and the chief preventives of a further deterio- 
ration. Ifitissaid, that men are become no 
longer fit for such a recurrence, I answer, that 
it is from the very causes above-mentioned, in 
which there must necessarily have been an action 
and re-action, by which the practice, and those 
who carry it on, corrupt and vitiate each other. 
Reform one, then, and you reform the other. 
If neither can be done, you may as well give up 
all idea of preserving the country, and suffer it 
to fall into a state into which it is impossible 
that the goodness or justice of God can ever 
have meant that it should. As well might we 
think that He has created all men to be damned , 
as that He has excited them, which he surely 
must in that case, to form institutions which 
contain in themselves the incorrigible (for we 
are not talking of perfectibility) principles of 
decay and ruin. Such a progress could be no 
preparation for the " perfection" which is re- 
served for " the just in heaven." A previous 
hell upon earth must finally preclude any such. 
No, no; if men may " work out their own sal- 
vation" (be it u with fear and trembling") 



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there, they surely may work out the social 
amendment that must fit each individual, af- 
fected as we all are by the example of each 
other, for it. A hell upon earth (for such would 
be the extreme of social deterioration), I repeat, 
can only be a preparation for a hell hereafter. 
But I could tire my reader, if not myself (I 
hope I have not yet done either), with argu- 
ments to induce him to give up his timid, and 
in fact almost desponding resource, of " letting 
(a fancied) well alone/' and to put on the more 
manly garb of hope in Reformation, that sound 
reason will tell him must fit the rational being 
whom it is meant to cover;— fit him both for 
mental and for bodily health— for the part 
which he is to act in this world, and for his 
consequent attainment of happiness in the 
next. The "credere quod habet" will then be 
scire quod habet, and he will have as strong 
an inducement to acknowledge and be thank- 
ful for the goodness of God, as he has now, 
and indeed will have under any state, to sub- 
mit to His decrees. O, Reader, need I ad$ 
more ? 

III. 

When we say "let well alone/' we may often 
drive the ill from our thoughts, to enjoy the 
well that our love of ease makes us fancy the 
existence of: it is our reason then that we 

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must consult, to ascertain its reality. Neither 
indolence, prejudice, nor timidity (shall I add, 
interests ?) will effectually assist us in this 
enquiry—" Non tali auxilio," &c. 

IV. 

I have to reproach myself with having omit- 
ted in this work the mention of Hirstmonceaux 
and Pevensey Castles ; the former a very old 
castellated mansion, formerly belonging to the 
family of Fiennes, the latter little more than a 
shapeless ruin, of some extent, of a castle once 
surrounded by a marsh, from which it appears 
to have derived a strength which must have 
given it considerable importance. Happily the 
days which necessitated such means of defence, 
and probably offence, are past, and nothing is 
left but the small remains of Monarchical power 
or Baronial splendour, of despotic or feudal 
tyranny, that made slaves, vassals, or rebels 
of those who were subject to it. but which now, 
diminished as it already is, will soon, we may 
hope, be changed for a state in which the 
balance of the three estates will be well esta- 
blished, and each will have its due weight in 
the general scale. This is the " well " that will 
deserve to be " let alone," when the " machine'* 
that " works" it is put into its proper order, 
which may be satisfactorily explained, though 
it has never yet been practically established ; 



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fer surely the principles on which it is formed 
may be rationally understood, and our political 
faith in them justified : the machine itself is not 
an automaton, nor are the movers of its springs 
altogether ignorant of those principles, though 
their practical application of them may have 
been mistakenly made, and now therefore re- 
quires to be corrected, as the errors which are 
seen may in part at least be, without having 
recourse either to military authority (the right 
hand of despotism) or to corrupt influence (the 
agency of Satanic power), still less to demo- 
cratic decision (the very Pandemonium of 
Satan, his appropriate " Wittenagemote.") 
The approval of public opinion, the submission 
to lawful power, may be expressed by contented 
acquiescence, but cannot be by the senseless 
clamours of a mob, whose passions, not their 
reason, are appealed to ; nor can it be by the 
proud satisfaction of that higher order of per- 
verted spirits, whose want of personal worth 
obliges them to have recourse to the influence 
of rank or riches, or both united, and discon- 
tentedly submitted to ; and for these, either the 
concealment of the ballot, or the shelter of uni- 
versal suffrage, are miserable substitutes. Real 
content cannot be consistent with the sacrifice 
of independence or of moral principle: let us 
then, as men, speak our real opinion honestly 
and boldly, not artfully, arrogantly, or pre- 



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sumptuously: without this, and a correspond^ 
ent conduct, we cannot do our duty either to 
God, to our fellow-creatures, or to ourselves. 

These are the sentiments which the people 
of a country ought to have, the superiority of 
Whose Parliamentary Representation is stated 
in the very respectable Preface to Dr. Memes's 
translation of Botirrienne's Memoirs of Buona- 
parte, to be that of twenty-two millions, by a 
greater number of Members of Parliament, than 
thirty millions of Frenchmen were represented 
by, in Buonaparte's time. How much more 
will this superiority appear> when our repre- 
sentation is improved as it is intended to be, 
on the principles on which it was originally 
designed, however fallen short of in practice . 
to be founded! And how strongly does the 
French Revolution, and the acts of Buona- 
parte's reign, shew the superiority of Mo- 
narchical and Constitutional England over 
Republican or Imperial France ! How well 
might the latter, as well as the other Govern- 
ments of Europe, to say nothing of those 
of Ameriea, remodel themselves on our plan ! 
Never then would they be subject to such a 
tyranny as Bonaparte's, of which Bourrienne 
appears to have given an impartial account, 
particularly of what has been rightly called the 
Massacre at Jaffa, of no less than four thou- 



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sand men, for which the only excuse that he 
leaves the candid reader to make, is, that Buo- 
naparte having still some remains of humanity, 
and perhaps an equal feeling of the odium whiclr 
it would cast upon his name, endeavoured a3 
much as he could, to avoid a crime which cir- 
cumstances brought on by himself, forced him 
to commit; Merciful God ! and was this the 
man who told one of his visitors at St. Helena, 
that his memory could not charge him with the 
commission of any crime ? True, his memory, 
accommodating as it was, hid its recollections 
Under the wide -spread cloak of ambition, the 
sin by which "fell the angels:" and was not 
Buonaparte one of Satan's scholars ? " dunce" 
as his "master" was .except in making ambition 
the " vade mecum" of their progress in crimes, 
or perhaps some other passion, such as might 
induce " HazaeF* to do the " great thing" 
which made " a dog" of him, or Nero to commit 
cruel ties* the aversion to which made him wish 
at the commencement of his reign, that he 
could not sign the warrant for the death of 
Criminals. What means there may be of 
avoiding the temptations by which so many 
" offences come," and which " shut the door of 
mercy on mankind," we cannot penetrate into 
the sanctissimum sanctorum of the Supreme 
Judge to learn ; but we must feel the rebound 
which our attempt to shut that door makes if 



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give against our hearts, case-hardened as they 
may be by the " robur et aes triplex" of ambi- 
tion. Shall I lengthen this list of Satan's 
scholars by adding to it those who excite the 
lower classes of this country in their progress 
from crime to crime, by their ambition to pre- 
serve those parliamentary or manorial rights, 
which a due regard to justice would much better 
secure to the Peers, Boroughmongers, and 
Seigneurs de Terreins, in the degree to which 
it would allow them their enjoyments ? I am 
afraid that the possessions, disturbed as they 
are, of many both reformers and anti-reformers 
of various kinds, go much beyond that degree, 
in this beginning of the career of ambition. 
Reformandae sunt igitur omnes hoe leges, et 
sine Angliae legum mutatione, sed correctione 
sola : sic longa integritate manebunt. Then 
may we say— All hail England, the tutress and 
protectress of other nations I 

V. 

We cannot help acknowledging the omni* 
presence of God : if our " voices" are " tuned" 
in composing, and our "nerves sustained" in 
writing, it must be by a Power above us, for we 
tjannot owe it to ourselves, but must to the 
agency of an efficient cause, which as it acts in 
all, must be present to and in all, acting indeed 
through the medium of our reason, which for 



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liids us to attribute it to any thing but what He 
has given us, and supports us in the use of. 
May I not be thankful for this Divine assist- 
ance, this accompanyment ? 

" I cannot go 
" Where universal love smiles not around/' &c. &c. 

The feeling of which denotes the accompany- 
ment. And can I look around me, and not feel 
it ? Can I look at my country, and consider the 
projected improvements of its Constitution, and 
not acknowledge the same agency, the same 
protection ? May we not hope for a continu- 
ance of it ? May we not pity those who do nut 
feel and acknowledge it ? "Will not the conse- 
quences force them to do it ? Not against 
their will surely, if contrary to their expecta- 
tion ; for we cannot wish for a continuance of 
despondency. 

VI. 

To what I have said of the Geological dis- 
coveries which have been so much assisted by 
those of Miss Anniug, at Lyme Regis, I may 
add, that another proof of the difference be- 
tween the animals which then peopled the 
earth, or rather the seas (for they must either 
have been aquatic or amphibious) and those 
which now people it, appears in the fossile 
remains of what may be called the saurine 



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genus, of which one has lately been discovered 
by her, with a very long and narrow mouth or 
beak, filled with sharp teeth, and with protube- 
rant scales on its body, like those on the back 
of a skate. These scales too, being on the 
fossile remains, seem as if the animal itself had 
little or no flesh. Another proof may, I think, 
be observed, in the apparent (if we may judge 
from the want of existent remains) non-exist- 
ence of the human species, which almost justifies 
the idea of Monsieur Maillet, that the earth was 
at first. inhabited only by fish, or amphibious ani- 
mals, and which agrees with what Moses 
reports the Almighty to have said, " Let us 
make man after our own image ;" and this also 
agrees with Moses's assigning a \ k beginning" 
to a state of things, which was in fact prim* 
ordial to man, who could have no share in a 
state of existence prior to his, which to him 
therefore was altogether extraneous. Thus the 
Mosaic history agrees as well with the co-exist- 
ent circumstances, as with the intelligence of 
man, which was not capable of reaching beyond 
the sphere of his observation : the rest could 
•not be communicated to him, and he must 
therefore, both then and now, leave it to the 
boundless possibility which fits only the power 
and the intelligence of God. How much does 
this narrow the comparative limits of our own ! 
and how much does it make all sceptical en- 



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quiry (which is the literal and proper business 
of scepticism) subservient to the conclusions 
which we ought to draw from it ! The addi- 
tions which we make to our knowledge serve 
only to shew how little is or can be the extent 
of that knowledge (stimulative as that sense is 
to the spirit of enquiry, for curiosity is insati- 
able) and therefore how much we have to trust 
to information, which is attested by so much 
comprehensible evidence. God only knows 
what we are (what He is He has left to our faith 
in His declarations) and what we are capable 
of, either as servants to Him, or as assistants 
to our fellow creatures : in both, we ought to 
make all the exertions in our power, as this 
poor Miss Anning does, and as those should do 
whose enquiries are assisted by her discoveries, 
which appear to have increased her belief in 
our religion, and her sense of the protection 
which has been afforded to her from the dangers 
she has encountered in making them. 

Both the non-existence of light itself, and the 
sole existence of waters upon the earth's sur- 
face, may almost be inferred from God's 
saying, u Let there be light" &c. and from the 
passage in Genesis, "The spirit of God moved 
upon the face of the waters." And supposing 
even a time when the earth and the solar system 
itself did not exist, how would either be missed 

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in the immeasureable evttnt of infinity ? A 
void there must probably be somewhere, or 
else the Creator and the Creatures are com- 
mensurate, or rather co-infinite. It seems to be 
more reasonably supposed by some that new- 
creations are still going on, by Him who "can 
create, or can destroy," as we are told He will, 
for the exercise (probably) of that power which 
must be displayed in action, for immutability is 
a cessation of creative power, and therefore 
must be peculiar to the power itself. And for 
these changes, those creations, there must be a 
field, in which the reason and even the imagi- 
nation may well lose themselves, 

" Say at what point of space Jehovah dropt 
His slacken'd line, and laid his balance by ; 
Weigh'd worlds, and measur'd infinite, no more? 
Where rears His terminating pillar high 
Its extra mundane head ? and says, to Gods, 
In characters illustrious as the sun, 
' I stand, the plan's proud period ; I pronounce 
The work accoraplish'd, the creation clos'd.' " 
&c. &c. &c. 

" Here human effort ends ; 



And leaves us still a stranger to his throne." 

Night Thoughts, night 9th and last. 

Let us then confine our efforts to the per- 
formance of our duties ; trusting in His mercy, 
and hoping for higher knowledge hereafter .' 



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VII. 
(Sequel to No. XV. p. 16, I 19 J 
• and I hope enlightened into a con- 
viction, that the right of property in game must 
always be considered as being loosely connect- 
ed with the more fixed right of property in 
land ; otherwise it will be a paramount seign- 
ory over the freehold property of others, which 
will always make it disputable, as being, if 
exercised, always oppressive. It will confound 
the freeholder with the copyholder, and will be 
a reservation that never could be justly made, 
being originally founded in injustice, and sub- 
mitted to with humiliation. I could not walk 
into a neighbouring freeholder's ground, with 
or without my gun in my hand, without being a 
trespasser: shall I therefore claim as a right 
what ought to be only a permission ? if I in- 
vade his right, he may return the invasion upon 
me with all the violence which he is capable of 
using. The manorial lord therefore assumes a 
right which, from the nature of freehold pro- 
perty itself, he cannot justly exercise, and 
therefore (he laws will consider him as a tres- 
passer, for the distinction of meum and tuum, 
must always be confined to fixed, not extended 
to moving substances,* which may be "nunc 
raihi, nunc alii." The law therefore only 
makes the right to destroy game subservient to 
the collection of the national revenues, a claim 
which every man must allow, as every man 
shares in the benefit of it. 



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VIII. 
Before I take a final leave of my readers, if 
readers I have, I wish to make some apology 
for the warmth with which I have expressed my 
opinions of, and expectations from, the political 
measures now pursuing. I may have been too 
sanguine in my hopes, as they, I think, will 
acknowledge that they may have been too 
desponding (for to that length many of the 
opponents of those measures have gone) in their 
fears of the consequences. Both, I believe, are 
founded more upon speculation, regulated by 
the temperament and habits of the speculator, 
than upon any certain assurance, whichever 
side the greatest degree of probability and force 
of consequential reasoning may be upon : this, 
time will shew, and that trial we have both to 
undergo. The event is with God : quod nobis 
visum est, potest visum non esse superis : 
should that event be disastrous, to Him we 
must submit ; should it be prosperous, what 
thanks will not the people of this highly- 
favoured country have to pay to Him for what 
will have preserved the vigour and established 
the purity of its excellent Constitution, secured 
the contentment, loyalty, and I trust I may 
add the religion of our countrymen, and, to use 
the terms of our liturgy, placed " upon the best 
and surest foundations, the safety, honour, and 
welfare of our Sovereign and his dominions !" 

FIXIS. 



INDEX, 



PAGE 

Title Page - 

Preface- _--__-_ ill 

Dedication __ = ____ v 

Sequel to ditto _ _ _ = ~ _ v ii 

Travelling Thoughts in the Journey from Brighton to 

Worthing, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 5, 6 - - - 1—5 

Arundel Castle, No. 7 - - - - - 5 

Journey from thence to Southampton — Occurrences 

there, &c, Nos. 8, 9, 10 =- - - - 6—7 

New Forest— Dorsetshire Hills, &c, No. 11 - 8 

Lyme Regis — its Fossiles— Miss Anning's Collection 

of them, No. 12 - 9 

Arrival at Exeter— Election there — Political Re- 
flections, &c. - - - - - - 12 

Natural Reflections and Observations - - 13 

Appendix- - - - - - - - 23 



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